PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia officials say traffic fatalities dropped by 26% last year. They attribute the improvement to traffic safety measures as part of the Vision Zero plan. <\/p>\n
Marco Gorini is program manager for Vision Zero, the 10-year-old program aimed at eliminating traffic deaths and injuries in the city. He says there were 89 traffic deaths last year; about half were bikers or pedestrians. That\u2019s the lowest number since a surge during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gorini largely credits speed cameras, which are now active on three of the city\u2019s high-injury networks where most crashes occur.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpeed cameras are working. We\u2019re seeing a change in driver behavior that we need to see to save lives,\u201d Gorini said.<\/p>\n
At the same time, though, crashes with serious injuries increased slightly in 2025. Gorini says there is much left to do to get to zero, including more outreach to drivers.<\/p>\n
\u201cSlowing down is the biggest shift in culture that we need to see. Vision Zero\u2019s top message to Philadelphians is that slowing down saves lives,\u201d Gorini said. \u201cWhen a person is hit by a driver at 20 miles per hour, there\u2019s a 10% chance that that crash results in a fatality. At 40 miles per hour, there\u2019s now a 90% chance a pedestrian will be killed.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to expanding speed cameras, Vision Zero added speed bumps, narrowed crosswalks to reduce the time pedestrians are at risk, programmed stop lights to give walkers a head start over cars, and improved bike lanes to separate cyclists from drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia officials say traffic fatalities dropped by 26% last year. They attribute the improvement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22942,69,71,70,5312],"class_list":["post-319961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-pedestrian-safety","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-vision-zero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}